Morey v. Doud

Morey v. Doud

Argued April 24, 1957
Decided June 24, 1957
Full case name Lloyd Morey, Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Illinois, Latham Castle, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, and Benjamin S. Adamowski, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois, Appellants v. George W. Doud, et al., Doing Business as Bondified Systems, et al.
Citations

354 U.S. 457 (more)

77 S. Ct. 1354; 1 L. Ed. 2d 1485
Holding
A state may not grant a specific company an exception to the requirements of the law that is applicable to everyone else.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Earl Warren
Case opinions
Majority Burton
Dissent Black
Dissent Frankfurter, joined by Harlan
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Amend. XIV

Morey v. Doud, 354 U.S. 457 (1957),[1] was a case where Doud and two partners sold 'Bondified' brand money orders in Illinois, directly or through agents such as drug and grocery stores. A state law required any seller or issuer of money orders to secure a license and submit to state regulation, except that the statute, by name, explicitly exempted the American Express Company from these requirements.

Doud, his partners and one of his agents, fearing prosecution under the law, sued the state, arguing the law was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court agreed, finding the special exemption only for American Express violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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  1. ↑ Morey v. Doud, 354 U.S. 457 (1957).
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